How five Australia-based television journalists died 34 years ago, trying to film Indonesia's invasion of the then Portuguese colony of East Timor, remains officially unresolved.

ECONOMIST: Among so many dead in East Timor, a few now famous foreigners

Indonesians tried harder to develop Timor than the Portuguese ever did, but their guilt made them uneasy.

ECONOMIST: East Timor

East Timor, a former Portuguese colony that was annexed in 1976, can be dismissed as an aberration.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

Such a vote had been held three months earlier in East Timor, the former Portuguese colony annexed by Indonesia in 1976.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

Separatist movements in Aceh, Papua and especially that in East Timor, a former Portuguese colony which Mr Suharto had invaded in 1975, were repressed with exceptional brutality again, the body-count ran into the hundreds of thousands.

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But unlike East Timor a former Portuguese colony these other places are all part of the old Dutch East Indies, out of which Indonesia was born.

ECONOMIST: A Survey of Indonesia

Unlike East Timor, which was a former Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and has now won the right to independence, Aceh was long administered as a part of the Dutch East Indies before the entire archipelago, or most of it, became Indonesia in 1949.

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